1. SUCH IS LIFE

(Instrumental)


2. R.R.C.C.

Over the edge
Time out of mind
Forcing the hand
Towing the line
But why?
Look what you're missing
Turnabout belief
Always second guessing
What do you need?
Rifling obsession
Searching for the key
Don't you ever wonder?
What's in store for thee
Trouble in spades
Schooled in "the way"
Earning the grade
We must subjugate
The mind
Look what you're missing
Turnabout belief
Always second guessing
What do you need?
Rifling obsession
Searching for the key
Don't you ever wonder?
What's in store for thee
DEATH, JAIL, OR ROCK-N-ROLL
I can't deny
LIVE? BELIEVE? SPEAK?
This heart is yearning
To tell the world
They just won't listen
To these words - of mine
Why do I even bother
Messing with you all
Like I got nothing better to do
Then take a fall
Life's not fair
Who said it would be?
Nobody cares
For the likes of me
Life's not fair
Who said it would be?
Nobody cares
For the likes of me
ROCK-N-ROLL
won't let me go
ROCK-N-ROLL
Won't let me go
No rock-n-roll
Ain't gonna let me go
ROCK-N-ROLL
WON'T LET ME GO
'Cuz I won't let it
Need it loud
Moving inside
Gods of Rock-N-Roll
Stand by my side


3. WAGE SLAVE

Quick glance into the never
Mind bent on saving time
Bold sense of dunce bravado
It's your ass on the line
Poor pig with nothing on you
Scraping & scratching for a dime
To buy back the tattered soul
You sold there
But the truth of the matter
Is it's just a lie
AS HOPE DISSOLVES
YOU FALL AWAY
9 tenths of what you borrow
Won't help you
Get through tomorrow
Crime becomes a tempting option
To release you from the strain
Here comes the craven wage strain
Dripping with
Sweat, bad blood & tears
Looking to get out
Up above & over chipping away
Yet chained to fear
THE SYSTEM FAILS
YOU ONCE AGAIN
ONE FACT PREVAILS
THE ONLY WAR IS CLASS WAR
RISE & burn this fucker down
ORGANIZE
Turn yourselves around
MARCH ON
Hold high the torch of hope
FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT
Don't let them destroy you
IT's YOUR CHOICE
IT'S YOUR VOICE
One struggle binds us together
Not going down without a fight
This storm together we'll weather
At the least we'll have our pride


4. THREE STARS

All alone yet beset with demons
After forever is a spirit tie
I unfold and wrestle with reason
Seems like it's never gonna be alright
Don't know what to say
When love turns grey
Drunken fool with a pocket of promise
And empty answers shining in his eyes
Dire wolf, hell hound of purpose
Taunted and hunted, licking at my thighs
One look then away
3 stars shine above
Relativity stains
Returns me no love
Remorse regret pounds in like a hammer
Pushing buttons and dwindling odds
Fraying threads weighted
With divine answers
Up to no good ripped, raped & robbed
Reach for you
No where near me
Preach & learn
The gospel truth
Eyes a burn
Wish it would rain
Lost and late for the train
Reach for you
No where near me
Preach & learn
The gospel truth
Eyes a burn
Wish it would rain
Lost and late for the train
After all nobody's perfect
Understand intent was never mine
Carnal caws and a nightmarish circus
Did not ask for this but it's my life


5. BEAR BAITING

If it takes too long
Can you give me time?
To make it come alive
I won't be bought
And I can't be sold
And I'm not that old
Broken hands toil on
Take away the ties
Let me see the light
I'm a black eyed dog
And a ghetto child
Cut me loose, I'm running wild
Down your diving for a penny
Street smart tough and iron wise
Best of it you bet I'm making yet
I never have a dime
Brother can you help me
Learn to help myself
This is not a dream
Just the way things be
Fighting for my sanity
Resort to thievery
Just to get on by
'Cuz I refuse to live to die
All my friends are dead
Or rotting in a cell
But I'll see them when I get to hell
Have a drink on me
From this bag of wine
All we have is time
Down your diving for a penny
Streets smart tough and iron wise
Best of it you bet I'm making
Yet I never have a dime
Brother you can't help me
Lemme help myself
I ain't the one
You'll never break me see
I'm not the one to taste your treachery
Accuse me now
Right here to my face
Laugh at you
And put you in your place
Stand my ground
Won't go easy
Stare me down
I won't go easy
Tear me down
Won't go easy
Bring it on
Won't go easy
I ain't the one
You'll never break me see
I'm not the one to taste your treachery
Accuse me now
Right here to my face
Laugh at you
And put you in your place


6. INFESTED

Get ready
All set
Don't forget
To breathe
THEN HIT THE BOTTOM
Weep
THE SALTED SORROW
Cleave
TO THE BITCH's BOSOM
Feel
A GROWING CANCER
Reek
of need about you
DESPERATION TEEMS
Cause a soul to rattle
TEARING AT THE SEAMS
Confounded reservations
Holding back
GIMME THE FORESIGHT
While looking back
BACK AGAIN TO ZERO
Here we go again
ROUND & ROUND & ROUND
Reek
Of need about you
The virus takes its toll
Drink deep from poison rivers
Pounding down calamity
No chance to ever make it
Overcome with your vanity
Choking on the chasm
Puking up the host
Likened to a whore
GIVING UP THE GHOST
FACT FADES FACE
TACTICS ERASE
PROVINCIAL PIGGY
WAITING FOR THE WORM
So your confusing fact with illusion
Acting as though you've known all along
That they are out to get you
Infesting you with a strain of
Ignorance that cannot be cured
So your confusing fact with illusion
Acting a though you've known all along
That they are out to get you
Infesting you with a strain of
Ignorance that cannot be cured


7. ALONE AGAIN

Last night it came upon me
Got the blues upon sunrise
As I reached to touch your shoulder
I was struck by the surprise
You'd packed up your belongings
Stole away into the night
Nary a sign is left of you here
Guess I'll lay back down and cry
Why do they always leave me
Happens just about every time
And I can feel you haunting
Through the back pitch of my mind
There's never been any reason
There's never been a way to explain
Seems that luck is out of season
Unless it's bad then down it rains
Growing colder by the minute
Getting hardened by the day
I'm a lonesome, loathsome creature
But I don't want to be that way
Why do they always leave me
Happens just about every time
And I can feel you haunting
Through the back pitch of my mind
A winter wind chills me to the bone
Bottle is empty and I still feel alone
This house is so empty
Now that you're gone
I face the fact that I done wrong
Now I see that you had to leave me
To save yourself and your sanity
You'll find another
And I pray he's good for you
Better that I could ever be
Hope you find just what you need
As I lay right here and bleed
Together we will never be
Through my soul runs stormy rain
Wrapped up with my old friend pain
Forever
It's my destiny
Sometimes I think I know the way
But find myself in a strange land
Where I don't know my name
Left to the dogs, hung out dry
Wish I could lay right down and die
I've tried but life's not done with me
Bye, bye baby
Baby goodbye


8. LUNAR ECLIPSE

Blackness this night is coming to be
I arise aflame with surprise
Dark needs ascend then fall into me
The master's call
Just can't be denied
Fall unto my grace
Bid into the game
Recognize this face
But don't speak aloud my name
Crawl forth
And worm thru the shadow
Prowling creep
With an itch for demise
Blood beast
Basking in the moon glow
Not alone I'm right by your side
Fall unto my grace
Bid into the game
Recognize this face
But don't speak aloud my name
Never had a choice
When nothing's left to lose
Hate for sinner not for sin
Soul is easy to unloose
Feel the cold hand grip
Away the life force slip
Dragged asunder as
Crimson sweet quells
A nefarious hunger
Heed the spirit call
Commands not one
But all eye of night gone blind
So evil runs free
And closes in from behind
Man forsaken
Renounced and marked to die
Deeds for darkness
The game is in motion
Wendigo arise
Boiling over
Wrath and righteous rage
Vengeful spirit
Brings hell to the earth
At the end of the age
Black pitch this night is coming to be
The master's call
Just can't be denied


9. BLASPHEMY

One chance to live the dream
Strike now before the dawn
Pierce the night air with a scream
Come on let's get it on
Gimme something
To take away the pain
Gimme something to break
Let's go insane
Gimme something to kill
Need no excuses
Fist pounding in the air
Raise up the devil's sign
Flying high without a care
Let's go
It's time
Gimme something
To take away the pain
Gimme something to break
Let's go insane
Gimme something to kill
Feel like an angel
Fucking a demon
Burning down heaven tonight
Sailing the seas
Of turpitude and blasphemy
Leak into steam
Fogging the brain with metal and weed
Lost in the swirl of sexual hunger
As clouting unfurls
Let's rock and let's rule
Choke on some vomit
And drown in the pool
Drive a nova into the tree
Some idiot just called the fucking police
Wake up next to coyote ugly
Hung over again
Fight 'till you bleed proving again
(You're) not a pussy
Drank someone's pee
Caught in a trap of hilarity
Freak off the leash over the fence
And into the street
Rock hard and ride free
Sins of the flesh vested in meat
Wired and weird gnashing of teeth
poisoned and pasted just underneath
Pass out and go at it some more
Wasting away
Blasphemy blasts-for-me


10. DO NOT

The shameless hand
Blisters
Cracks and bleeds
Never old
But twisted and misleading
How can we share what is gone and lost
Resurrected
It defeats all purpose
Thoughtless deeds
Keep us down as we grieve
Shackled tight to our pride
Searching blind for the key
All the while it lies inside
So I try to define
Between wrong and right
But I can't draw the line
Getting harder to find
My peace of mind
And I can't draw the line
Still I try to make time
Yet with each try
I can't draw the line


11. SOCIOPATH SHITLIST

Encroaching injustice
Whipping your hide
Sending you reeling
Towards suicide
Finding it failing
Turn to the blade
Can't kill yourself
Someone will pay
Bringing it down from above
Revenge is far too sweet
Digging in deep to the bone
Hacking away at meat
It seems so simple
To take another's life
When you lack a conscience
But you have a knife
Strangling streets knots
White knuckle ride
Motherfucker's are useless
Your all gonna die
Bringing it down from above
Revenge is far too sweet
Digging in deep to the bone
Hacking away at meat
Sociopathic mind
Controls the will
Voices in my mind
Screaming kill! Kill! Kill!
Death's the ultimate high
Wanna feel the thrill?
With your blood all over me
I can taste your pain
Your screams caressing
My fucked up brain
Stare into your dying eyes
Sucking your last breath
Drawing ever so close
To your death
With your blood all over me
I can taste your pain
Your screams caressing
My fucked up brain
Stare into your dying eyes
Sucking your last breath
Drawing ever so close
To your death
Off you go
Off you go
Crossed off my shit list


12. STRUGGLING FOR BALANCE

Dancing through the darkness
With a corpse for a partner
Trying hard to keep in step
Calliope entrancing
Spinning towards upheaval of the dead
Cracking cross the ceiling
Leaking plasm through the peelings
Evolve then dissolve
Wistful about your brothers
Yearning for the mother
And the calm
Before the storm
Chased by the past
Stalled in the present
Pissing on the future
Make no mistake
Within your haste
To stitch & suture
Without restraint
Or a guiding gaze
Rules are verboten
Marveling the waves
Crashing up the banks
& flooding to you
Dreams of peace elude
Torrent's of pain deluge
Lacking the faith
To make another day
A chance for changes
Rolling in the waste
Of a stillborn taste
For levity
Proclivity reigns
Tightening the ropes
Of your behavior
Shooting at the moon
Burning up the spoon
Has made you weak
Dreams of peace elude
Torrents of pain deluge
Drawn into the whirlpool
Stream of consciousness cool
Ever widening circles
Envelop a drowning fool
Awaiting your deliverance
Begging for forgiveness
Looking for an answer
To mend a broken dream
Ever land of failure
Sparking up involvement
Shards of ramification
Grinding me
Rampant for redemption
Regulate the madness
Struggling to gain balance
Regulate the madness
Struggling to gain balance
Pragmatic vision
Momentous clarity
Sidestep derision
Aware of what must be
Debasement
Of hatred
And anger